[casi] following CNN's near conviction that WMD have been found - a re-post

[Li Saavedra <saavedra1979@DELETETHISyahoo.com>]

"CNN breaking news -- Material found at paramilitary
camp in Hindiyah, Iraq, tests positive for
chemical-warfare agents in preliminary testing,
Pentagon sources tell CNN. Samples being flown to U.S.
for confirmation."

                DEMONS OF NECESSITY:
    Why Weapons of Mass Destruction WILL be Found

                          by Lisa Walsh Thomas


"We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are
forever desperate to believe that this time the
government is telling us the truth."
-- Sidney Schanberg (columnist)

Under a large rock in the deserts of Iraq, lie the
weapons of mass destruction that threaten "freedom."
They are there somewhere, now or later, and they WILL
be found.

History authored the notion that necessity is the
mother of invention. History is also the diary in
which is recorded that necessity sometimes, or perhaps
often, spawns the great demons of so-called
civilization.

Adolph Hitler gained a strong foothold in the control
of Germany when he achieved the chancellorship in
1933. That wasn't enough to allow him to implement his
grand plan, however, which required convincing the
German people to give him control over the military.
For such extreme trust from the people, there needed
to be a threat beyond the danger of putting such power
into the hands of one man. Such a threat was a
NECESSITY for him to achieve full dictatorial powers.

On the night of February 27th, just after Hitler
became chancellor, the Reichstag caught fire and
burned to the ground.

Within the hour, Hitler's S.A. picked up a mentally
ill (probably schizophrenic) man named Marinus van der
Lubbe. Van der Lubbe, under "questioning," confessed
to starting multiple fires using the underground
tunnels beneath the Reichstag. He was accused of
having done so as a representative of the German
communists, whom Hitler feared and hated. The German
people were incensed that the
communists-turned-terrorists had attacked them right
in the jugular. Der Lubbe was executed and few people
asked why there were no police or other security
people guarding the Reichstag that night.

Communist (KPG) leaders were arrested and Hitler was
granted the dictatorial powers he had sought. Most of
us know what followed.

This is not to suggest that a deranged lone man did
not successfully burn the Reichstag to the ground on a
night when no one was looking. It is to suggest only
that necessity perhaps dictated what happened.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson desperately wished
to send more troops to Vietnam, in a full-scale
escalation of the non-declared war, but neither the
people nor the congress felt any justification for
such escalation.

Then, on August 4, on nationwide television, Johnson
declared that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had
launched an "unprovoked attack" against a U.S.
destroyer on "routine patrol" in the Tonkin Gulf.
Further, Johnson and the Pentagon told the American
public that North Vietnamese PT boats followed up with
a "deliberate attack" on a pair of U.S. ships.

The accusations turned out to be fabrications. The
U.S. destroyer Maddox was actually engaged in
aggressive intelligence-gathering maneuvers -- in sync
with coordinated attacks on North Vietnam by the South
Vietnamese navy and the Laotian air force. But the
lies were NECESSARY in order to produce support for
Johnson's plans.

The now-famous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - the closest
thing there ever was to a declaration of war against
North Vietnam -- sailed through Congress on August 7,
with a vote of 88 to 2, the votes based on the
now-accepted deception.

The deception had been NECESSARY. In the end, it was
costly, especially to the more than 50,000 American
soldiers who died in the jungle and the millions of
Vietnamese they killed. Nevertheless, it was at its
inception, in the minds of some, necessary.

In 1997 the rightwing thinktank, Project for the New
American Century (PNAC), dealing with permanent
hegemony of the United States, was formed. Finding the
U.S. as a sole superpower with financial surpluses
unheard of since the 60s, there, just waiting to
happen, was a pax americana, a U.S. imperialism to
control the world.

The vast cost of setting such imperialistic aims in
motion necessitated a belief by the American people
that they were in danger that could be averted by an
even larger military machine, one which would by
chance be financially beneficial to many prominent
people in the U.S. government.

What was needed for America to dominate much of
humanity and the world's resources, the PNAC crowd
said, was "some catastrophic and catalyzing event -
like a new Pearl Harbor." This, according to John
Pilger in The New Statesman, was written in advance of
9-11.

A terrorist strike on American soil, the likes of
which had never before been envisioned, was necessary.


On September 11, 2001, that strike came when a handful
of Saudi hijackers (according to accepted conclusions)
with some boxcutters flew two planes into the World
Trade Center and another into the Pentagon,
opportunely for them, at a time when the U.S. Air
Force trained to intercept such actions on any other
day had fallen asleep at the wheel.

Americans woke up, shocked, heartbroken, and ready for
battle. The administration could have whatever it
wanted. Congress gave Mr. Bush carte blanche, making
him the most powerful chief executive in American
history. To refuse him ANYTHING was considered almost
treasonous. A former Honduran ambassador accused by
the Honduran Human Rights Commission of aiding in
death squad activity was able to slide right through
as Mr. Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador.

A heinous act had been perpetrated upon the American
people, and no one could object to any demand made by
the new Commander-in-Chief. To place our full trust in
him, regarding military matters, tax cuts, and
anything else imaginable, was NECESSARY.

There were skeptics about the sudden jump to
conclusions. The administration and hundreds of
thousands of flagwavers blindly agreed to obliterate
Afghanistan if it meant they might find the
perpetrator of this act. All evidence pointed to Osama
bin Laden, a man created by the CIA during the cold
war. Mr. Bush, despite family and business ties
between the Bush and the Saudi bin Laden families,
vowed to find Osama, "dead or alive."

Coincidentally, the previous May, Colin Powell had
delivered 43 million dollars to the Taliban who
controlled Afghanistan. It was an old story of their
having something we wanted and our having something
they wanted. The Caspian oil reserves at that time
were projected to be one of the largest in the world,
and western oil companies were working late into the
night to decide who the oil belonged to and how it
could be transferred from the former Soviet bloc
countries to the sea. France already had a deal going
to ship its share via a proposed pipeline in Iran. The
U.S. had no place to put a pipeline. Afghanistan was
the logical choice, and bartering began.

During all this business-as-usual, many of us all over
the world were trying to draw attention to the
inhumane treatment of women by Afghanistan's Taliban.
Our outrage was ignored. The pipeline was of greater
importance, and relations couldn't be strained as long
as the U.S. was dependent upon the Taliban to build
this pipeline.

Then the Taliban balked and wouldn't cooperate. As has
happened so often in the past century, you cross Uncle
Sam and you get to wear a black hat.

The sequence of events is not that confusing. Attempts
were made to buy off pipeline rights with the Taliban.
The Taliban refused. The World Trade Center was
attacked. The alleged ringleader, Osama bin Laden, was
hiding out in Afghanistan.

So, mostly from six miles up, the U.S. attacked and
conquered Afghanistan, easy pickings in a destitute,
war-ravaged third-world country. The lesson of Vietnam
had been to attack only when certain of victory, i.e.
a focus on weak or defenseless countries.

The two most wanted men, Osama and his son-in-law,
Mullah Omar, were not found. In an ironic twist, the
Caspian oil reserves now appear to be less fertile
than originally calculated. Still, it had been
NECESSARY to send Afghanistan further into the Stone
Age because Osama was probably hiding out there in a
cave with his dialysis machine.

Necessity justified the attack, the destruction of
unborn lives through depleted uranium, and a civilian
death toll we don't yet have straight. As for the
failure to find Osama, the administration patiently
explained to us that the issue wasn't "a single man."
Osama is already in the process of being forgotten. It
is not NECESSARY to find him.

Afghanistan was practice. Since long before 9-ll, many
eyes had been on Iraq. Not only does Iraq have the
second largest oil reserves (and considering sulfur
content, the richest) on earth but many consider it a
perfect foothold for control of the entire mideast.

We began to be told that the REAL danger to our nation
and its allies lay in Iraq, with its weapons of mass
destruction, which were to have been destroyed at the
close of Gulf War I.

Inspectors had searched for these weapons for several
years before leaving the country to avoid Clinton's
bombings in 1998. (Contrary to popular myth, they were
never "thrown out" of Iraq.) The U.S. demanded
retribution for Iraq's alleged failure to comply with
the U.N.'s resolution calling for the destruction of
the weapons, while Iraq insisted it no longer had such
weapons.

The U.N. insisted that the next step was to send the
inspectors back. The inspectors returned, given full
access to the entire country. While they sometimes
found Iraqi officials difficult to work with, in the
end chief weapons inspector Hans Blix stated
unequivocally that the inspectors had found not one
piece of evidence of weapons of mass destructions.

There were some red herrings, but each was shot down
by the International Atomic Energy Commission or the
U.N. Over a hundred al-Samoud 2 missiles, all declared
by Iraq, were found to overshoot their allowed
distance by ninety kilometers. Despite Iraq's
insistence that the extra range resulted from empty
payloads, they began to be destroyed, unavailable for
defense should the Anglo-American forces decide to
unilaterally invade anyway.

If WMD existed in Iraq, they were out of the reach of
the inspectors. And the U.S. was eager to get the
inspectors out so that the invasion could begin before
the climate became too hot for soldiers unused to the
desert. World opinion was growing against the
Anglo-American position, and there was no time to be
lost.

The American people allowed the genocide now taking
place in Iraq for two reasons:

1. In a bewildering show of ignorance, the people
could not keep Osama and Saddam straight, believing
that it was Saddam who attacked the world trade
center. Not even Bush claimed this, but few at the top
explained to the people that Saddam and Osama are
mortal enemies. The people wanted revenge for the
3,000 deaths in New York City, and they went for the
wrong man.

2. From sea to shining sea, the majority of the
American people believed Saddam had/has weapons of
mass destruction. A frenzy allowed people to pass on
such untenable fears as, "If we don't take his nukes
from him, he can wipe out New York City whenever he
wants." The corporate press fed this fear daily.

Most of the U.N. and the International Atomic Energy
Commission and millions and millions of people
opposing this invasion knew that there probably WERE
no weapons of mass destruction. The "evidence" was all
paper-tiger quality, shot down as it was discovered to
be fabrications, some of it embarrassingly so. The
evidence that all former WMD (Saddam had in the past
been provided some by Britain and the U.S., had even
used some of their chemicals on the rebelling Kurds)
no longer existed was much stronger. Most of the world
concluded that however much a thug Saddam Hussein
might be, it had no bearing on whether he posed a
danger to anyone outside his own country.

But the "coalition" (armed by three countries - the
U.S., Britain, and Australia) has now invaded a
sovereign country against the wishes of the U.N., the
EU, NATO, the world's religious leaders, and the
majority of the people on earth. American and British
servicepeople have died. Iraqi civilians have died.
More will die. Dozens of mothers in the United States
are weeping. Thousands of mothers in Iraq are weeping.


The only thing that will "justify" these deaths is the
discovery of vast amounts of dangerous weapons of mass
destruction. It is NECESSARY, vitally necessary, to
those who orchestrated the current happenings, that
these weapons be found and shown to the world as
evidence of Bush/Blair rightness. It is essential in
allowing the U.S. to save any face left to be saved.

So they WILL be found.

And millions of people, those with yard signs that
say, "Iraq today, France tomorrow," those who still
confuse Iran and Iraq, those who don't know the
difference between Osama and Saddam, those who believe
Bush has a serious connect with God, those who think
the nineteen alleged hijackers on 9-11 were Iraqis
(documentation shows them to be primarily Saudi), all
these people will trust their leaders that these
weapons were there all along.

This is how it happens. This is what necessity does in
the hands of ruthless men. This is how the fine fabric
of goodness turns to frayed gossamer, then rotted
remnants of dirty threads. This is how a land of
compassion, integrity and courage can become the most
hated nation on earth.

It sleeps with Necessity. It snuggles close. It either
blindly believes or it does whatever it has to do to
win the prize. It lets its once-pure face be stroked
by the seductive, gnarled hands of power and greed,
complacency and ignorance. It joins either the Germans
who turned their heads when the trains rolled by or it
joins those who used cattle prods to pack dissidents
into the cars.

There is no in-between. Of all the spawn of this
necessary seduction, Ignorance is the most
unforgivable.

The touted weapons of mass destruction WILL be found.
They will be found because it is NECESSARY that they
be found.


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SOURCES:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf


"The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam," by
Tom Wells

"Uncensored War," by Daniel Hallin

http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/germany/3rdreich/default.htm

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Lisa Walsh Thomas is a lifelong political activist, a
poet, fiction writer, former teacher, gifted education
specialist, and arts columnist. She currently writes
political articles for several online liberal
publications.  A book of her essays is scheduled to be
released by Pitchfork Publishing by mid-May.

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